Moisture + Mugginess = Stay Inside and Hide!!

The past three days have been overcast and horribly muggy, with record breaking temperatures in the 90s! Instead of bringing relief, late day rains have ushered in overnight sogginess…..enough apparently, for this to happen:

Mushrooms growing in my bromeliad container!?!

I’ve occasionally seen bright yellow mushrooms among my irrigated St. Augustinegrass, but never did I expect “sprouts” in a container receiving no irrigation OR hand watering! What’s even more surprising is this :arrow: I inspect my plants daily (am I a wierdo? ;)) and yesterday there was no hint of mushrooms!

Needless to say, I checked the other potted bromeliads and though I didn’t see any strange fungi ;) a flower spike was forming in one of the front containers and definately worth showing you:

Billbergia windii in Spike

48hrs ago, this spike was barely visible: the rain has a huge impact on tropical species!

Going back to the original “mushroom pot,” I think an experiment’s in order. :) Note the tiny mushrooms appearing near the back of the bromeliads:

Teeny tiny mushrooms at 3:15pm., 06/01/12

It will be interesting to see how quickly they grow in a 24hr period, so tomorrow I’ll take a picture at 3:15pm. (Our weather pattern hasn’t changed yet, so conditions tonight should be similar.) Right now it’s still storming, and though the threat has passed, at 6pm we were under a tornado warning:

I hope the tonrado literally passed you by, such scary things!
Everytime it rains I’m amazed at how plants react – no matter how much I may water, when it rains they put on inches overnight. A wonderous sight!

We’ve had the same jungle weather and tornado warnings as well, both of which are unheard of in late May in New Hampshire. We are also getting rain today and I’m hoping I see some mushrooms tomorrow-they make for interesting blog posts!

Hello my Northern friend! :)
Threats of Tornados at this time of year in N.H. is SO atypical! Although, remember last early June when a tornado made its way down the Connecticut River out around Central Ma? That was bizarre!

Thanks for stopping in, and I wish you lots of nice sun from here on out!